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			{{Short description\|American bishop (1849–1922)}}
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	'''John Edward Robinson''' (12 February 1849 – 16 February 1922<ref>{{cite book \|last=Lutzweiler \|first=James \|title=Missionary Review of the World \|volume=45 \|year=1922 \|publisher=[[Funk & Wagnalls]] \|page=330 \|quote=BISHOP John Edward Robinson, ... of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died in Bangalore February 16th, aged seventy-three.}}</ref>) was a [[missionary bishop]] of the [[Methodist Episcopal Church]], elected in 1904.		'''John Edward Robinson''' (12 February 1849 – 16 February 1922<ref>{{cite book \|last=Lutzweiler \|first=James \|title=Missionary Review of the World \|volume=45 \|year=1922 \|publisher=[[Funk & Wagnalls]] \|page=330 \|quote=BISHOP John Edward Robinson, ... of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died in Bangalore February 16th, aged seventy-three.}}</ref>) was a [[missionary bishop]] of the [[Methodist Episcopal Church]], elected in 1904.
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	==Birth and family==		==Birth and family==
	John was born in [[Gort]], [[County Galway, Ireland]] (28 miles north of [[Limerick]]). His parentage was [[English people\|English]], the son of James and Jane Robinson. John was fatherless at the age of six. He came to the U.S. in 1865. He married Retta Terry on 15 November 1876. They had the following children: Ruth E., Helen E., John F., Bessie E., Flora L. and Muriel E.		John was born in [[Gort]], [[County Galway, Ireland]] (28 miles north of [[Limerick]]). His parentage was [[English people\|English]], the son of James and Jane Robinson. John was fatherless at the age of six. He came to the U.S. in 1865. He married Retta Terry on 15 November 1876. They had the following children: Ruth E., Helen E., John F., Bessie E., Flora L. and Muriel E.
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	==Episcopal ministry==		==Episcopal ministry==
	The Rev. Dr. John Edward Robinson was elected the Missionary Bishop for [[Southern Asia]] in 1904. In his [[theology]], Bishop Robinson was considered ''"liberal evangelical."''<ref name="New Schaff-Herzog">[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc10/Page_61.html ''The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge,'' Vol. X, p. 61.]</ref>		The Rev. Dr. John Edward Robinson was elected the Missionary Bishop for [[South Asia\|Southern Asia]] in 1904. In his [[theology]], Bishop Robinson was considered ''"liberal evangelical."''<ref name="New Schaff-Herzog">[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc10/Page_61.html ''The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge,'' Vol. X, p. 61.]</ref>

	==See also==		==See also==
	* [[List of ~~Bishops~~ of the United Methodist Church]]		* [[List of bishops of the United Methodist Church]]

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'''John Edward Robinson''' (12 February 1849 – 16 February 1922<ref>{{cite book |last=Lutzweiler |first=James |title=Missionary Review of the World |volume=45 |year=1922 |publisher=[[Funk & Wagnalls]] |page=330 |quote=BISHOP John Edward Robinson, ... of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died in Bangalore February 16th, aged seventy-three.}}</ref>) was a [[missionary bishop]] of the [[Methodist Episcopal Church]], elected in 1904.

==Birth and family==
John was born in [[Gort]], [[County Galway, Ireland]] (28 miles north of [[Limerick]]). His parentage was [[English people|English]], the son of James and Jane Robinson. John was fatherless at the age of six. He came to the U.S. in 1865. He married Retta Terry on 15 November 1876. They had the following children: Ruth E., Helen E., John F., Bessie E., Flora L. and Muriel E.

==Education==
John was [[Conversion to Christianity|converted]] to the [[Christianity|Christian]] faith while a teacher of boys at the 104th St. [[Methodist Church]] in [[New York City]]. He graduated from [[Drew Theological Seminary]] in 1874. He also received a [[D.D.]] degree from [[Albion College]] in 1902.

==Ordained ministry and missionary service==

Robinson went to [[India]] in 1874 as a [[missionary]]. His appointments were as follows: [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]] (1874–77), [[Bangalore]] (1877–80), and [[Yangon|Rangoon, Burma]] (1880–86). He then became the presiding elder of the [[Burma]] District (1884–86). He was appointed to [[Shimla|Simla]] in 1886, but then again as a presiding elder, this time of the [[Bombay]] District (1887–96). He was presiding elder then of the [[Asansol]] District (1896-00) and the [[Calcutta]] District (1900–04).

Robinson also served as the [[Editing|editor]] of the ''Burmah Evangelist'' (1884–87) and of the ''Indian Witness'' (1896–1904).

==Episcopal ministry==
The Rev. Dr. John Edward Robinson was elected the Missionary Bishop for [[Southern Asia]] in 1904. In his [[theology]], Bishop Robinson was considered ''"liberal evangelical."''<ref name="New Schaff-Herzog">[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc10/Page_61.html ''The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge,'' Vol. X, p. 61.]</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of Bishops of the United Methodist Church]]

==Notes==
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==Selected writings==
* ''Apostolic Succession Refuted'', Rangoon, 1884
* ''The Rise and Progress of Methodism'', 1899

==References==
* ''"Robinson, John Edward"'' in '''The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge,''' Samuel Macauley Jackson, D.D., LL.D., Editor-in-Chief, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1954, Vol. X, p. 61.[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc10/Page_61.html]
* ''"ROBINSON, Rev. Bishop John Edward, D.D."'' in '''Who's Who in American Methodism,''' Carl F. Price, Compiler and Editor, New York: E.B. Treat & Co., 1916, p. 186.

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